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Removing the wireless data board.

Interestingly enough, the hard drive ribbon cable routes data through the wireless data board before finally reaching the motherboard.

You can see Dell's nice labels: WLAN, WWAN, and WPAN. If you fill in all slots, your networking capabilities will be local, wide, and personal.

We disconnected several ribbon cables from the motherboard before proceeding.

Six Phillips screws hold the motherboard and its attached heat sink and fan in place.

The display data cable connects to the bottom of the board, and must be disconnected before the motherboard is freed from the machine.

Removing the heat sink. The heat sink is pretty tiny, but we assume a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor won't get that hot.

We didn't see any thermal sensors in the machine, but one or more might be integrated into the motherboard.

The top of the motherboard. You can clearly see the 2 GB 800MHz DDR3 memory in the center of the board. Don't plan on buying the low-end machine and upgrading your RAM later - it's not going to happen.

Here's a hi-res shot of the board.

The bottom of the motherboard.

Yes, the processors are soldered to the motherboard. That's not a surprise, and hopefully you're not purchasing this machine to get the latest and greatest in processor technology.

Unfortunately, all the ports are integrated into the motherboard. Repair will not be cheap if something goes wrong.

Here's a hi-res shot of the board.

On to removing the keyboard.

There's a total of nine Phillips screws holding the keyboard in place, but one in the top left was removed when we took out the motherboard.

That's not nearly as bad as it could be.

The Adamo will likely be an excellent choice for people with large fingers. The letter keys on the Adamo have 30% more surface area than those on the Air.

At least the keyboard (and probably the whole machine) is produced by Quanta Computers. They're the world's largest notebook manufacturer and make machines for both Apple and Dell.